Culture Diary w/c 27-04-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series: Mona Arshi, Sarah Corbett, Eleanor Rees 5-8pm @...
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In Profile: Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)
An ancient curio of subversive Hollywood, or just plain provocative? Adam Scovell analyses what is possibly early cinema’s most uncomfortable horror… That strange period between American cinema that experimented with early sound, right through to...
Culture Diary w/c 30-03-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Wednesday — Exhibition Opens: Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986 10am-4pm @ Yorkshire Sculpture Park — FREE...
In Profile: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them”: Adam Scovell analyses one of Hitchcock’s most famous thrillers through the lens of the director’s personal fear of authority… There is little doubt that Alfred...
Capstone Classics: See Indian Culture In A Different Light
A new monthly film club from the Capstone Theatre and Milapfest is bringing the best of Indian cinema to Liverpool audiences. And it’s about time, says Adam Scovell… In a series of world cinema events organised...
The Double Negative Awards 2014
We may not have a glitzy ceremony, but we do have an esteemed panel of judges. All year, our critics have been travelling the length and breadth of Britain, witnessing the best contemporary (and classic)...
Ritual, Magic & Slapstick: The Kazimier’s Silent Film Revival
Adam Scovell looks forward to the next Silent Liverpool event, showcasing the tragicomedy of Larry Semon and the avant-garde choreography of Maya Deren… Silent film is a description that is at once a...
Culture Diary w/c 10-11-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Matisse: From Tate Modern and MoMA 6:30pm @ FACT, Liverpool – £10/8 The next best...
In Profile: Derek Jarman’s The Last of England (1988)
An experimental and hypnotic film made with Super 8, Jarman’s The Last of England is a scathing attack on the state of Thatcherite Britain, homophobia and the treatment of AIDS victims, finds Adam Scovell… The late 1980s were...